[mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

[Bram van Dijk]

It is very intuitive actually, now that I think about it a bit more.

take the example of a "performed drums" AR:

A track-level AR means that the artist played the drums somewhere in the 
track. He/she may not be the only drummer, doesn't necessarily play the 
whole song, maybe only in the last 10 seconds or something, but a drum 
was played by the artist.

A release level AR means that the artist played the drums somewhere in 
the release. He/she may not be the only drummer, doesn't necessarily 
play on each track, but a drum was played by the artist.

All this inheritance stuff only complicates matters. The only reason I 
can see to put AR's that apply to all tracks at the release level is to 
have a lower total number of AR's with the same information.
Of course, it also used to be very time consuming to add them to every 
track, but thankfully it isn't anymore.

Bram

Philipp Wolfer schreef:
> On Jan 2, 2008 1:22 PM, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> A lot of albums do specifically say "all tracks produced by".  A lot
>> more say "Tracks 1,3,9,11 and 14...", or in one case I can think of
>> 'all tracks except track 1 produced by..'.  Just because a lot of
>> album liners are fuzzy, doesn't mean a whole lot out there aren't very
>> precise, and assuming we're all only entering the fuzzy ones is a
>> little odd, when in fact a lot of us are putting in quite some effort
>> to do it the other way around, and always have been.
>>     
>
> A lot of liner notes are not so specific as you describe. If a liner
> note says "drums on this release by ABC" this is still valuable
> information. But you can't say for sure if it applies to all tracks on
> the release. That's what Brian means by "fuzzines". If it is clear
> that the information applies to all the tracks on the release we can
> add the AR to all individual track and there is no need for a release
> level AR then. The whole point is for allowing release level AR if
> that's all the information available.
>
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